Display attachment for radiator-nozzles.



w. e. MILLER & 1. WMVANDERVEERJ DISPLAY ATTACHMENT FOR RADIIJOR NOZZLES Arrucmon mm oc a. 121 s. w 1,24%}97; Patented Nov 20, 1917 arroamsrs' AND-JEWELL W. VANDEBVEER, F LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK.

-' I v DISPLAY ATTACHMENT FOB BADIATOR-E'OZZLES.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed October S, 1916. Serial No. 123,60.

To all wkomit may concern."

Be it known that we, WILBUR G. MILLER and JEWELL W. VANDERVEER, citizens of the 7 United States, and residents of, respectively, Syracuse and Liverpool, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Display A"- tachment for Radiator-Nozzles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object a display attachment especially applicable for the filling nozzles of automobile radiators, by

means of which a lamp or a flag, or both,

or other display devices can be readily at- 1 5 inched to the radiator; and the invention consists inthenovel features, and in the combinations and constructions, hereinatter set forth and claimed. 1

In describing this invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is an elevation, partly in section of this attachment, the contiguous parrot a 5 radiator being also shown.

Fig. 2 is a plan View of the bracket of my attachment.

This attachment comprises, generally, a base having means associated therewith for so securement to the nozzle of the radiator, and including a bracket having a lamp holder, a globe holder or support, and a flag stick holder or support, and means for illuminat ing the globe and the flag. Some of said 1'5 elements may however, be omitted if desired.

The base includes a radiator cap 2 to which the bracket 1 is secured in any suitable manner, as by a screw 3, threading through the top of the cap 2 and into a stem or pedestal depending from the-bracket 1, and having a foot 4 overlying the top face of the cap. Although the bracket may, if desired be provided with means attachable di ectly to the nozzle 5 of the radiator.

6 designates the globe. The means on the bracket for holding the globe, may be of any suitableiconstruction, and as here shown, mcludesf'lu'gs or shoulders 7 arranged to receive an outturned bead or lip 8 at the lower end of the globe, two of these lugs 7 being arranged to clench over the bead 8 and the third lug having movable clamping means as a screw 9.

The fla stick holder or support includes 5 a vertic socket 10, preferably arranged ter of the body of the bracket, and arranged outside of the globe in front of the same, it" being here shown as carried by an arm 11 projecting radiallyfrom the circular portion of the bracket on which the globe rests.

The means for' illuminating the globe and 6 the flag, in this embodiment of my invention, includes a singleelectric lamp-12' havmg its socket 13 extending through an incllned lamp holder 14 at one side of the cen- 35 so that the lamp 12 is located in the central axis of the globe. A suitable reflector 15 encircles the lamp and is provided with a hub or collar 16 detachably mounted on the lamp socket- 13 and'secured thereto in any suitable manner, as by a bayonet joint 17.

The reflector is arranged to throw most of the light upwardly against the upper portion of the globe, and out through an open ing 18 in the top of the globe the light passing through the opening 18, flooding the flag 19, which is carried by a stick 20, the lower end of which is fitted into the socket l0 and held therein by a set screw 21.

The curent for the lamp 12 may be supplied from the lighting system of the motor vehicle, and is served to the lamp by conductors within a cord 23 provided with a suitable plug 24 at one end insertible in the guide or holder 14 and having terminals for engagement with the terminals of the lamp socket 13. This plug 2 may be detachably held in. position in any suitable manner, as by a bayonet 'oint.

The rear ace of the globe toward the driver of the vehicle is preferably darkened. The globe may have on its surface any desirable display matter, lettering or advertising matter as the names of cities, socie ties, etc.

In use, this attachment can be readily ap- .plied to the nozzle and removed therefrom directed upwardly from the globe, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A display device comprising a base having a lamp support, a lamp held by the support, means for directing the rays of light upwardly, and an upwardly extending socket located near the lamp for receiving a flag stick and holding the flag in position to be flooded from the light of the lamp,

substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. A display device comprising a basehaving a lamp su port, a lamp held by the support, means or directin the rays of light upwardly, an upwar y extending socket located near-the lamp for receiving a flag stick and holding the fla in p'osition to be flooded from the light or the lamp, a globe'around the lamp and a globe holder supported by the base substantially as and purpose descri ed.

holder, a

the lamp upwardly, a globe held by the globe holder and formed with an opemng in its top, the base being also formed with' lamp in said support, means for holding the.

globe, a reflector for directing the-rays of 30k; e-ti e.

the lamp upwardly, the bracket fbeing alsm formed with means for carrying afia'g above the globe in position to be flooded-{by ,light directed upwardly by the reflector, substam tially'as and for the purpose described; K

In testimony whereof, we-have hereunto signed our names, at Syracuse, in the count of Onon'da a, and State of New. York, 27th day 0 September, 1916. v

TWILBUR G. MILLER. i I J EWELL WLVANDERVEERJ. 

